"Blunt, honest, hard-hitting... a great read about a
campaign that transformed American politics." Steve Grossman, chairman, Dean campaign and
former chairman, Democratic National Committee.
"A most engaging, candid, and well-written study of the
hell-for-leather primary campaign of Dr. Howard Dean." Howard Frank Mosher, author of "Stranger in the
Kingdom" and "Waiting for Teddy Williams".
Before writing Burning at the Grassroots: Inside the Dean Machine, I had written many
magazine articles. What you find in this section is a few of them.
First is an article on cutting edge research about
the Canine Genome Project. I wrote that article to try and make very complex
research understandable and relevant to everyday life, particularly for people with dogs. (in PDF format, requiring adobe acrobat)
Another article that moves from the scientific
toward the very unscientific- the paranormal. In that article, I wrote about how a
personal experience led me to investigate how legends and ghost stories start and are
propagated.
This is an article on how my wife and I came to own a railroad
caboose, which is where I do much of my writing in warmer weather.
This article mixes railroad history, engineering, and personal experience.
As this sampling indicates, I have broad interests. Currently, I am developing the
outlines for my next book, which I hope can have an impact on the discussion leading
up to the 2008 election. With the Dean book, I was looking back, at what may have
been a missed opportunity for something other than politics as usual in America.
I think that there may be new opportunities for America to break out of its current
political malaise, which is what inspires me to another book.
